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882 F.2d 1286 · 1989

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Keenan v. City of Philadelphia (1992), Graham v. Sauk Prairie Police Commission (1990)

20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)

Relies on Beatrice WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. HANDY BUTTON MACHINE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee · Will v. Comprehensive Accounting Corp. · Deppe v. Tripp · Bob Willow Motors, Inc. v. General Motors Corp. · Erwin v. County of Manitowoc

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “conduct motivated by evil intent or callous indifference to the federally-protected rights of plaintiffs.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Davis v. Marion · Stachniak v. Hayes
  2. “plain error doctrine is not available to protect parties from erroneous jury instructions to which no objection was made at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Gavin v. O'Leary
  3. “controlled by a federal common law of damages imposing uniformity in enforcing the Civil Rights Acts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Stachniak v. Hayes

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.